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Book: 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality

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50 Three Steps to Your Best Job Options Best Jobs ® for YourPersonalityPart of JIST’s Best Jobs Series ®300 Job Descriptions for 6 Personality Types s Second Edition140+ Best Jobs Lists, Including Jobs with the eBest Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings s Make the best career fit for your personality type: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional. “Best jobs” lists for each personality type, organized by earnings, growth, education level, and much more. Useful job descriptions packed with the latest details. Featured on CareerBuilder.com, CNN.com, MSN.com, and AOL.com Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.

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Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D. Foreword by Kristine Dobson, President, Career 1 Consulting Also in JIST’s Best Jobs SeriesBest Jobs for the 21st Century 150 Best Jobs Through Military Training200 Best Jobs for College Graduates 175 Best Jobs Not Behind a Desk300 Best Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree 150 Best Jobs for a Better World200 Best Jobs Through Apprenticeships 10 Best College Majors for Your Personality40 Best Fields for Your Career 200 Best Jobs for Introverts225 Best Jobs for Baby Boomers 150 Best Low-Stress Jobs250 Best-Paying Jobs 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs150 Best Jobs for Your Skills

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This Is a Big Book, But It Is Very Easy to Use Psychologists have long understood a principle that many of us consider just common sense: that people have an aspect called personality that makes them feel more comfortable in some situations than in others. People who have a certain personality feel more capable of doing certain things and dealing with certain problems; they also feel more accepted when they are among people with personalities similar to their own. This is especially true for one place where people spend a major portion of their time: at work. People want to feel that they ﬁt in with the people and with the activities where they work. If personality is the key to this feeling of ﬁtting in, then you need to consider this question: What kind of personality do you have? Maybe you can come up with a few ways to describe yourself, such as “sunny,” “energetic,” “conscientious,” “loyal,” “outgoing,” “funny,” or “competitive.” But what do those terms suggest for the kind of work you might enjoy and do well? What terms might be more useful? Some Things You Can Do with This Book This book can help you think about your personality in terms that have proven relevance to the world of work. You’ll learn about the personality types that many psychologists and career development practitioners use to describe people and jobs. You’ll take a quick assessment to help you clarify your dominant personality type. Then you’ll dig into a gold mine of facts about the jobs that are the best ﬁt for your personality type—and that are the best for other reasons, too, such as their wages and job openings. The lists of “best jobs” will help you zero in on promising careers, and the descriptive proﬁles of the jobs will open your eyes to career choices that previously you may not have known much about. We all want to ﬁt in somewhere. And there are probably several diﬀerent careers where each of us could ﬁt in. But why not do it in a really good job? That’s what this book can help you choose.Credits and Acknowledgments: While the authors created this book, it is based on the work of many others. The occupationalinformation is based on data obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau. These sources provide the mostauthoritative occupational information available. The job titles and their related descriptions are from the O*NET database, which wasdeveloped by researchers and developers under the direction of the U.S. Department of Labor. They, in turn, were assisted by thousands ofemployers who provided details on the nature of work in the many thousands of job samplings used in the database’s development. We usedthe most recent version of the O*NET database, release 13.0. We appreciate and thank the staff of the U.S. Department of Labor for theirefforts and expertise in providing such a rich source of data.

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Table of Contents Summary of Major Sections Detailed Table of ContentsIntroduction. A short overview to help you better Part I: Overview of Personality and Career .............. 17understand and use the book. Starts on page 1. Why Use Personality to Choose a Career? ........................... 17Part I: Overview of Personality and Career. Part Describing Personality Types............................................... 18I is an overview of personality and of personality The RIASEC Personality Types ........................................... 18types. This section also explores the relationship Other Assessments with RIASEC Output...........................22between personality and career. Starts on page 17. Part II: What’s Your Personality Type? Take an Assessment .................................................... 23Part II: What’s Your Personality Type? Take Step 1: Respond to the Statements.......................................24an Assessment. This part helps you discover your Step 2: Score Your Responses .............................................. 31personality type with a short, easy-to-complete Step 3: Find Jobs That Suit Your Personality Type .............. 31assessment. Starts on page 23. Part III: The Best Jobs Lists: Jobs for EachPart III: The Best Jobs Lists: Jobs for Each of of the Six Personality Types ................................. 33the Six Personality Types. The 141 lists in Part Best Jobs Overall for Each Personality Type: Jobs withIII show you the best jobs in terms of high salaries, the Highest Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings .....34fast growth, and plentiful job openings for each of The 50 Best Realistic Jobs ................................................. 35the six personality types. Further lists classify the The 50 Best Investigative Jobs...........................................36jobs according to education and training required The 50 Best Artistic Jobs ..................................................38and several other features, such as jobs with the The 50 Best Social Jobs ....................................................40highest percentage of women and of men and jobs The 50 Best Enterprising Jobs ........................................... 41with high rates of self-employment and many part-time workers. Although there are a lot of lists, they The 50 Best Conventional Jobs .........................................43are easy to understand because they have clear titles The 20 Best-Paying Realistic Jobs ..................................... 45and are organized into groupings of related lists. The 20 Best-Paying Investigative Jobs ...............................46Starts on page 33. The 20 Best-Paying Artistic Jobs ....................................... 47 The 20 Best-Paying Social Jobs ......................................... 47Part IV: Descriptions of the 50 Best Jobs for The 20 Best-Paying Enterprising Jobs ...............................48Each Personality Type. This part provides a briefbut information-packed description of the 50 jobs The 20 Best-Paying Conventional Jobs ............................. 49from each personality type that met our criteria for The 20 Fastest-Growing Realistic Jobs ..............................50this book. Each description contains information on The 20 Fastest-Growing Investigative Jobs ........................50earnings, projected growth, education and training The 20 Fastest-Growing Artistic Jobs................................ 51required, job duties, skills, related job titles, related The 20 Fastest-Growing Social Jobs.................................. 52knowledge and courses, and many other details. The 20 Fastest-Growing Enterprising Jobs ........................ 52The descriptions are presented in alphabetical order The 20 Fastest-Growing Conventional Jobs ...................... 53within each personality type. This structure makes The 20 Realistic Jobs with the Most Openings ...................54it easy to look up a job that you’ve identiﬁed in a The 20 Investigative Jobs with the Most Openings ............. 55list from Part III and that you want to learn more The 20 Artistic Jobs with the Most Openings..................... 56about. Starts on page 129. The 20 Social Jobs with the Most Openings....................... 56Part V: Appendixes. Appendix A contains a list The 20 Enterprising Jobs with the Most Openings ............. 57of occupations in this book and their two-letter The 20 Conventional Jobs with the Most Openings ........... 58personality codes. Appendix B lists the Guide for The Best Jobs for Each Personality Type with a HighOccupational Exploration (GOE) interest areas and Percentage of Workers Age 16–24 .................................... 58work groups. Appendix C deﬁnes the skills and the Realistic Jobs with the Highest Percentage of Workerstypes of knowledge listed in the job descriptions in Age 16–24.................................................................... 59Part IV. Appendix D identiﬁes resources for further Best Realistic Jobs Overall Employing 10 Percent orcareer exploration. Starts on page 451. More Workers Age 16–24 .............................................60 Investigative Jobs with the Highest Percentage of Workers Age 16–24...................................................60 iv

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ForewordWhen I wrote the foreword for the ﬁrst edition of this book, I started by saying, Whether you’re acounselor or a career explorer, this book is a must-have resource!I’d like to take credit for the tens of thousands of copies that have been sold, but I am fairlycertain that readers discovered the value of this fabulous resource for themselves. I have no doubtthat 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality will continue to be a popular reference for career guidanceprofessionals and also for individuals who are in the process of choosing or changing their careers.The O*NET content model as a whole and the in-depth descriptions of occupations that havegrown out of that model are of huge signiﬁcance. O*NET has provided career professionals andothers the common terminology that was needed to communicate across disciplines about theworld of work. This book, 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality, takes great advantage of the O*NEToccupational database. For counselors, the book is a ready reference that includes key descriptorsof over 300 occupations, organized by the six career personality types (“RIASEC” or “HollandCodes”) ﬁrst described by John Holland. For the lay reader, there is a “How to Use This Book”section that will promote eﬀective use in advancing individual career exploration. Though thefocus is on personality type, the book is uniquely organized to encourage readers to consider arange of characteristics as they investigate potential careers.As a career counseling professional, I have experienced ﬁrsthand the gratiﬁcation that comes withhelping individuals understand how their personal characteristics relate to occupational choice.I have witnessed the eﬀects, both in terms of job satisfaction and of productivity, when thereis a good match between an individual’s personality and an environment that supports his/herpersonality traits. It’s an exciting process, one that will be furthered through the use of this book.Kristine DobsonPresident, Career 1 Consulting xii

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Introduction B efore we get started ﬁnding the best jobs for your personality type, here are a few things to know about the information in this book and how it is organized.Where the Information Comes From The information we used in creating this book comes from three major government sources: The U.S. Department of Labor: We used several data sources to construct the information we put into this book. We started with the jobs included in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database. The O*NET includes information on about 950 occupations and is now the primary source of detailed information on occupations. One of the information topics the O*NET covers is the personality types that are discussed in this book. The Labor Department updates the O*NET on a regular basis, and we used the most recent one available, release 13. As it happens, in release 13 the data about personality types has been completely revised and updated. Because we also wanted to include earnings, growth, and number of openings—information not included in the O*NET—we used sources at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The Occupational Employment Statistics survey provided the most reliable ﬁgures on earnings we could obtain, and the Employment Projections program provided the nation’s best ﬁgures on job growth and openings. These two BLS programs use a slightly diﬀerent system of job titles than the O*NET does, but we were able to link the BLS data to most of the O*NET job titles we used to develop this book. The U.S. Census Bureau: Data on the demographic characteristics of workers came from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This includes our information about the proportion of workers in each job who are men and women, are self-employed, or work part time. As with the BLS data, we had to match slightly diﬀerent sets of job titles, but we were able to identify CPS data for almost all the O*NET jobs. The U.S. Department of Education: We used the Classiﬁcation of Instructional Programs, a system developed by the U.S. Department of Education, to cross-reference the educational or training programs related to each job. 1